perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Aaron Brown <>]

Hey Michael,

Would it be possible to get the output from when NDT is initially started 
during boot?

Cheers,
Aaron

> On May 4, 2015, at 1:08 PM, Pennington, Michael 
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> 
> Thanks.  I was going to mention that running those steps fixed my issue as 
> well, but when you reboot the issue comes back so on every reboot those 
> steps need to be completed.    
> 
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> Subject: Re: [perfsonar-user] Re: [perfsonar-announce] NDT 3.7.0 Now 
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> For me, I made a bash script that's run by rc.local upon reboot.  I'm 
> running RC code though so I'm not certain this applies to the latest code 
> available by yum.  Mine still says that NDT is not running but the NDT site 
> still functions.
> 
> -----
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> service ndt stop
> service httpd stop
> service httpd start
> service ndt start
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> And, yes, thank you guys very much.  :)
> 
> Robert Remsik
> Colorado State University
> 
> On Mon, 2015-05-04 at 09:12 -0500, Casey Russell wrote:
>> Group,
>> 
>> 
>>     In case others run into the same problem I had after the 
>> auto-updates this weekend.  After the NDT updates were applied, my 
>> local services page showed NDT "Not Running".  The service had been 
>> running on Friday (albeit with the older, broken NDT).
>> 
>> 
>>     I tried going to the "Enabled Services" page and simply clicking 
>> "Save" to restart all of the running services, but this had no affect.
>> NDT was still stuck in a "Not Running" state.  I finally took a cue 
>> from the announcement email sent over the weekend and restarted the 
>> services by hand.  I first ran "service ndt restart" and then "service 
>> httpd restart" on each of the affected boxes, and everything returned 
>> to normal, and our boxes are now running the updated version.
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks to the development team for what appears to be a much improved 
>> NDT.
>> 
>> 
>> Casey Russell
>> Network Engineer
>> Kansas Research and Education Network
>> 2029 Becker Drive, Suite 282
>> 
>> Lawrence, KS  66047
>> 
>> 
>> (785)856-9820  ext 9809
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 7:41 AM, Aaron Brown 
>> <>
>> wrote:
>>        Hey Roderick,
>> 
>> 
>>        That error shouldn’t be a problem. I’ll put a fix in to avoid
>>        it in the future though.
>> 
>> 
>>        Cheers,
>>        Aaron
>> 
>>> On May 4, 2015, at 3:15 AM, Roderick Mooi 
>>> <>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Aaron 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I got this error on two of our servers (the rest worked
>>> fine):
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Non-fatal POSTIN scriptlet failure in rpm package
>>> ndt-server-3.7.0-8.el6.x86_64
>>> web100srv is stopped
>>> fakewww is stopped
>>> chown: cannot access `/var/log/ndt/fakewww*log': No such
>>> file or directory
>>> warning: %post(ndt-server-3.7.0-8.el6.x86_64) scriptlet
>>> failed, exit status 1
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Please advise.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Roderick
>>> 
>>>> On 01 May 2015, at 10:00 PM, Aaron Brown
>>>> <>
>>>>  wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi All,
>>>> 
>>>> We would like to announce the availability of NDT version
>>>> 3.7.0 This is a major new release, that contains, among
>>>> other things:
>>>> 
>>>> - Adds support for Java 8 to the java client
>>>> - Adds a WebSockets-based client, allowing modern web
>>>> browsers to perform NDT tests without requiring the use of
>>>> any plugins
>>>> - Includes a substantially redesign of the Web GUI
>>>> - Support for using Apache instead of ‘fakewww’
>>>> - Improves the security of fakewww for those who still
>>>> use it
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> A source tarball is available
>>>> at http://software.internet2.edu/sources/ndt/ndt-3.7.0.tar.gz
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> You can find RPMs at the Internet2 RPM repository
>>>> at http://software.internet2.edu/ . Existing users that
>>>> have auto-updates configured should download the changes
>>>> in the next 24 hours. Those without auto-updates can run
>>>> 'yum update' by hand to get the latest version. To use
>>>> Apache instead of fakewww, install the package
>>>> ‘ndt-server-apache’ using yum, and run “service ndt
>>>> restart” and “service httpd restart”.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks again to all our testers and those that provided
>>>> feedback.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> If you have any questions or concerns, please direct them
>>>> to 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Aaron
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